Estimating the frequency of events from unnatural categories

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 552-562

  Conrad, Frederick G ^a   Brown, Norman R ^b   Dashen, Monica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038309741     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196096     Document Type: Article

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